Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Church of San Juan de los Reyes. Originally a mosque used by Christian converts at the beginning of the 13th century. It was the first place consagred as a church by the Catholic Monarchs after the conquest of Granada. The original building was torn down in 1520 to erect the church in Gothic style. A minaret of the mosque has been conserved with decoration formed by bricks with mixtilinear arches and sebka panels (almohad style). Albaicin district.

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